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These Are The New Xbox 360 Specs
These are the specs for the new Xbox 360, which include a “custom Kinect port,” a new system fan that’s “as quiet as a PS3,” according to Microsoft, and some other noteworthy changes, like the official death of Memory Units. Touch Sensitive Buttons – turn the Xbox 360 on or off and eject a disc…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 14, 2010 -
What The World Needs Is A Lady Gaga Kind of First Person Shooter
Stuart Black was going to make a typically dreary first person shooter. Then he went to see a Lady Gaga concert. Out went his original shooter game play. “It had a very serious tone to it,” he told me on a visit from his native England during a recent interview in New York. “And then…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 14, 2010 -
The Giant Video Game Banners E3 Didn’t Want You To See
The security man outside the Los Angeles Convention Center told me that the powers that be at E3 don’t want any pictures taken of the big show yet. But I took most of these from the sidewalk outside. Nothing from the still-roped-off show floor. So we’re cool?
By Stephen Totilo Published June 13, 2010 -
Our Favorite PAX East Game Will Be Exclusive To PS3
The best game I saw at the last gaming convention I attended will be announced as a PlayStation 3 exclusive at the next one. OK, I had two favorite games last time. Slam Bolt Scrappers was one of them. When I played the game at PAX East in Boston a few months ago, it was…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 11, 2010 -
Angry Tea Party Guy Makes Video Game More Scary
If you were waiting for the day angry Tea Party protesters could be used to hype action-packed video games, wait no more. That day has arrived. The Tea Party is a conservative political movement of great and growing popularity in the United States, a movement that loves Sarah Palin but might have more mixed feelings…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 11, 2010 -
Homefront Is The Video Game Of The American Insurgency
You’ll fight the North Koreans in the parking lot of the Home Depot-like Lumber Liquidators store. You’ll protect your fenced suburban Colorado backyard from Korean eyes in the sky with a canopy of camouflage. Homefront is a game of American fear and American resistance, set on American soil. I saw this interactive fantasy of an…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 11, 2010 -
Duke Nukem On Xbox Live In Two Weeks
Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project will be available for download in two weeks on Xbox Live. 3D Realms boss George Broussard tells us the game is a remake of the 2002 game of the same name — a sidescroller, you know — and will be available on June 23 for 800 Microsoft points, though you can…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 10, 2010 -
Method Man and Redman Rapping At E3
If you’re attending E3 next week, you can check out a live Method Man and Redman concert at the Konami booth at 4pm on the 16th to hype this fall’s Def Jam Rapstar. If you can’t make it, you can at least watch them taunt you about your rap skills right now.
By Stephen Totilo Published June 10, 2010 -
Play Zelda II As A First-Person Shooter
You could keep reading this post. Or you could pop open a new browser window and try playing late-80s Zelda II: The Adventure of Link as a first-person-shooter. This wonderful little late-May creation that I somehow missed puts a player in the head of Zelda hero Link in what may be the worst non-spin-off Zelda…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 10, 2010 -
New Mortal Kombat Coming, Will Be Most Gory Ever
A new Mortal Kombat is on the way. And fatalities are back. Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment just revealed that the famous fighting franchise will return on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in 2011 in a new MK that will be played in 2D. The company says that the game will include extensive online play,…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 10, 2010 -
Kingdom Hearts Re:Coded Debuts In America Next Week
The Nintendo DS re-make of a Japanese Kingdom Hearts cell-phone game will be at video game mega-show E3 next week. Cool, but is that the Kingdom Hearts E3 mystery game? This is what we know: Kingdom Hearts Re:Coded is not Kingdom Hearts 3. No way. It’s one of two Kingdom Hearts games Square Enix confirmed…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 9, 2010 -
PlayStation 3 Goes 3D Tomorrow, Four Games At Launch
Some of the biggest PlayStation 3 games will be available to play in 3D this year. The first 3D games hit as early as tomorrow. At an event in Los Angeles, Sony PlayStation boss Jack Tretton is just rattling off games coming in 3D this year for the PS3. These games will be rendered in…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 9, 2010 -
FrontierVille, The New Game From The Makers Of FarmVille, Just Might Be More Fun
Is FarmVille fun? Depends on your definition of fun, probably. But the veteran creator of some big-name games is the man behind FrontierVille — the next game from FarmVille studio Zynga. And he’s done stuff Farmville skeptics might like. Frontierville launched on Facebook today. It was in development for seven months under the oversight of…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 9, 2010 -
Exclusive Day Note Preview Hands-On
To: BA From: ST Re: SDN1a2 “Wow.” That was the only word that came to mind when I got to experience a Day Note myself. I’d written Day Notes before, but those were on older hardware and certainly before the advent of 3D and the popularity of motion control. This new Day Note, which I’ve…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 8, 2010 -
Max Payne 3 Slips, Releasing Later Than Halloween
Max Payne 3 has been delayed until some time after Halloween 2010, according to a press release from the game’s publisher issued today. The anticipated Rockstar sequel had been expected for release by then when last we heard from publisher Take Two Interactive. Take-Two’s update to investors indicates that L.A. Noire (also from Rockstar), Mafia…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 8, 2010 -
Game Company Sends Us Sack Of Meat
The last time the powerful people at Electronic Arts sent our boss Brian Crecente something ridiculous in the mail, he burned it on his grill. Fitting, then, that they sent him some meat. They are promoting Bulletstorm, of course! It’s a shooter game in which you shoot lots of stuff, including people, rendering them, one…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 8, 2010
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